Anthropometric measurements of school-going-girls of the Punjab, Pakistan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Child's growth has been considered an important indicator to evaluate health trends in a population and to devise strategies accordingly. The purpose of the present study was to determine most commonly occurring weight abnormalities among school-going girls from Punjab and to compare with international growth references devised by World Health Organization (WHO) and Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Methods

In this cross-sectional study a sample of 10,050 child and adolescent girls from 12 districts, 35 public/private sector schools, located in rural, semi-urban and urban areas of northern, central and southern Punjab were included. Parameters were measured according to standardised techniques and centile curves obtained by Lambda, Mu, Sigma (LMS) m

SUBMITTER: Karim A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7229613 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature